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O dolci sguardi

Recordings

A new departure for the wonderful all-male vocal ensemble Cinquecento. They turn to the secular music—generally much less well known—of the Renaissance masters Philippe de Monte, Jacobus Vaet and Jacob Regnart whose sacred music they have explored ...» More

O gentle glances, O half-spoken words,
shall I ever see and hear you again?
O golden tresses in which love caught my heart,
and having so captured now leads it to death;
O lovely face, shown me by cruel fate,
since I must ever weep and never enjoy:
O hidden deceit and loving treachery,
to give me a pleasure that brings only pain!

And if sometime from those exquisite eyes
on which my life and thoughts do ever dwell,
some sweet chaste glance perchance should light on me,
I would dispose at once of all I have
and travel far on horseback or by ship,
for fate is ever quick to work against me.